Yugoslavian M57 Tokarev hammer group quirk!

[alvin]

The feeling of shooting a TT is very differently from shooting a C96 though. And, tt's not hard to shoot TT off-hand, but it will take major effort to shoot C96 with one hand and be able to punch holes on the target paper.

[Shadowsix]

I still need to get a light box or at least some more lamps so these aren't the best pics.

Functionally it is in good order, cosmetically it is not but I'm going to work on that myself including removing a moderate sized idiot scratch (slide stop pin insertion gone wrong) some prior user put in it.

Now that I've finished removing the last of the cosmoline from the bore I'll start the scratch removal & reblueing tomorrow.

You'll notice all of the import markings on the left side of the slide including the fact that they forgot to put the 7 after the 5 unless there is an M5 Tokarev that I haven't been able find anything on. According to some writings on Yugoslavian Tokarevs the C in the serial number is supposed to denote a commercial one, yet supposedly those part serial numbers are from one that is from a Yugo army arsenal (slide 1-00.001, frame 2-00.101, trigger 2-00.004, ...). So it having both I don't know what to think until I learn more.

A fun firing fixer upper.